Keeping a boat operational and up to date is a never ending drain on the check book. Seems like its always a couple hundred for this and then worst case for you, thousands for a new motor. Got to pay to play I guess. That must have been an older 4 stroke that broke a timing chain. I think the newer 4 strokes are non interference engines so they don't explode if you break a timing chain.
Spent 4 to 5 hours with my new rig on Murray today just running sidescan and DI mapping out some new areas. Sometimes that's just as fun as fishing. Get your rig ready, water Temps are coming down.